Canopy cover mediates interactions between a specialist caterpillar and seedlings of a neotropical tree

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 103-113

  Norghauer, Julian M ^a,c   Malcolm, Jay R ^a   Zimmerman, Barbara L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Brazil Program   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Amazon forest; Big leaf mahogany; Caterpillar herbivory; Density dependent folivory; Janzen Connell; Light gaps; Limiting Resource Model; Plant Vigour Hypothesis; Seedling growth and mortality; Swietenia macrophylla

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSPERM; CANOPY; CATERPILLAR; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; NEOTROPICAL REGION; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; SEEDLING;

AMAZONIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; SWIETENIA; SWIETENIA MACROPHYLLA;

EID: 37149057163     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2007.01325.x     Document Type: Article

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